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The Shower Is My Time To Open Up My Operatic Chops, Because Of The Enormous Echo. You Sound Five Times As Big In The Shower, So I Break Into Some "nessun Dorma" From Puccini 's Turandot Or Pearl Jam. You've Got To Go Big When You're In The Shower. There's No Half-singing In The Shower, You're Either A Rock Star Or An Opera Diva.

Every Day I Lugged My Backpack Through The Halls, Waiting For The Final Bell. Then I'd Race Home And Hole Up In My Room, Playing The Drums And The Piano, Composing Music.

Art Matters Because It Is The One True Great Connector In A World That Seems To Be Very Unconnected.

I Get Terrible Butterflies. Before I Go Onstage, I'll Have To Freak Out For Five Minutes. I Scream. It Seems To Help!

When You're Walking In, Basically Like A Kid A Candy Store, To A Project Where There's An Endless Canon Of Material, You Have To Step Back From It As A Self-indulgence. You Have To Look At It Neutrally.